Connecticut western news., 1887-12-07
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns.

Governor Lounsbury, of Connecticut, has declined to call special session of the Legis- lature to legislate on the matter of grade crossings of railroads.
 John W. Quirk, fourteen-year-oldb boy of Philadelphia, has died of cigarette smoking.
 A white mob in Mississippi took three negroes from 6 jail and shot them, on sus- picion that their victims had attempted to kill a farmer.
 Coroner c. K. McHatten, of Denver, Col, was found dead in bed from the effects of an overdose of laudanum.
 In order to prevent the total destruction os game in Wisconsin, deer park of 10000 acres is to be laid out and protected in tho northern part of the State.
 Petroleum of good quality has been struck near San Antonio, Tex, at depth of 800 feet
 Representative Townshend, of Illinois, proposes . consolidation of all the bureaus at Washington in a new department, to be known as the Department of Industries and Public Works.
 Arthur O'Keefe confessed to killing Octa- vius Cato in Philadelphia in 1871.
 New stock yards covering 40 acres and costing s1, ,oOO. 900 were opened at St. Joseph. Mo.
 A statue of the late President Garfield of heroic size in bronze was unveiled at Cincin- nati.
 -Gross irregularities have been discovered m the administration of affairs in Manitoba, and Premier Norquay is politically doomed.
 It has been finally decided to place the bodies of the executed Anarchists in Mount Greenwood Cemetery, twenty miles from Chi cago.
 The Collector of Customs at Amherstberg, Ont, has seized the American steamboat Bob Anderson, belonging to MT. Demars of De- troit.
 Additional testimony confirms the charges Of horrible cruelty made against the women managers of the Indiana State Female Re formatory.
 Mrs. Magdalena Schartz. wealthy Ger man widow of Brainerd. Minn., married a tramp from Dakota that had been in her em- ploy as chore boy.
 John Edwards, . youth of Darlington County, sc, attempted to kill his father who was beating his mother, but he missed his mark and killed his mother instead.
 The official count in Ohio shows that MT. Foraker ran 2, 470 behind his ticket.
 John II. Gowan, and lis 16-year-old daughter were found at their home at Huron, Dak., frozen to death.
 A farmer named Irby shot and killed two negroes who attacked him on his farm in Marl- boro county, N. c.
 M. Gaunt, colored resident of Xenia, O., has deeded his property, valued at SSO, 900, to Wllberforce University.
 -Momera, a full-blooded negro, son of an African king, has arrived in this country, and will enter the Medical College of Indiana.
 The high bridge across the Mississippi at Dubuque was dedicated. A grand procession paraded the streets and general holiday was observed.
 Five boys, aged 15, met at the schoolhouse at Petrolia, Pa. organized & court, tried three younger ones, sentenced them to be hanged, and carried out the sentence. Two were cut down without injury, but the smallest one may possibly die.
 The daily Courier and the daily Standard of Syracuse, N. Y., have each raised the price from two to three cents copy.
 The Right Rev. Thomas Bonacum was consecrated as Bishop of the new Roman Catholic Sec of Lincoln, Neb.
 The official vote of Massachusetts gives Gov. Ames plurality of 17, eos, and major ity of 5, ,96S. The plurality for the Republican State ticket averages about 24 900.
 -Diphtheria of peculiar fatal character is alarmingly prevalent in Montreal, Canada. Thirty-two persons have died of the disease, and the death rate shows no signs of decreas- ing.
 While workmen were laying water pipes under the East Tennessee Railroad in Chatta- nooga, Tenn, passing freight train jared the bank, and it fell, burying Alexander Wilkerson, superintendent, and Bury Byron, a colored workman. When unearthed, three hours afterward, both men were dead.
 Gov. Gray recommends that the present system of 1ogging women in the Indiana State Reformatory be abolished and solitary con- enement be substituted.
 The United Synod of the Lutheran Church South, in session at Savannah, reject ed the overturcs from the Protestant Episco- pal Church of America upon the subject of Christian Unity.
 -Glanders has attacked the horses in the vicinity of Eau Clair, Wis, and many cases have proved fatal.
 The Attorney General of Pennsylvania has decided that . woman cannot be made mo- tary public in that State.
 Twelve thousand cigarmasers are on strike at Havana, Cuba, for an increase of wages. Arbitration Is expected to settle the differences
 The cause of the recent closing of ninety i've cigar factories in Havana, which threw out of work 12 900 operatives, IS 8 matter of active discussion among the cigar and to- bacco leaf importers. s'It is & continuation of the trouble that led to a six-weeks' lock- out last year," says one, ''and it is a struggle to see whether the owners or the ,ncn shall run the factories"